A parking study in Montrose found that the neighborhood has a surplus of parking across the area at most times of the day.
At the Montrose Redevelopment Authority/TIRZ 27’s monthly meeting, Monisha Khurana, chief operations officer at The Goodman Corporation, presented the findings of the months-long study.
The breakdown
The study looked at over 33,500 parking spaces, including 18,500 on-street spaces and 15,000 off-street spaces. Consultants also received more than 2,000 survey responses between October 2025 and January 2026.
“What we found is that the parking challenges in Montrose are concentrated on particular blocks in particular hours,” she said.
Montrose generally has enough parking across the study area, but it doesn’t mean that parking is easy and convenient all the time, Khurana said.
Five areas of concern include portions of Westheimer, the Fairview area, the Harlow District, school areas and southeastern Montrose.
Evenings and late nights were identified as particularly difficult parking times, with residents reporting circling blocks in search of spaces or parking several blocks away.
“The overall finding is that Montrose does have an overall parking surplus across most of the study area at most times, and the challenge here is the distribution of and access to the existing parking supply,” Khurana said.
Assessing the need
The study does not recommend a new parking garage, publicly funded parking lot, area-wide change to off-street parking requirements or specific locations for paid parking or residential permit parking. Instead, Khurana presented a “parking toolkit.”
“This is not a list of projects that are being recommended," she said. "The various tools in here solve different problems.”
The toolkit includes time limits, paid parking, parking removal, residential permit parking and parking benefit districts.
The study also recommends making the existing Montrose Collective parking garage easier to find by adding wayfinding, publishing parking rates and listing the garage on major parking platforms.
Keep in mind
Any changes would have to be initiated through the city’s existing processes by residents, businesses, or property owners and then evaluated by the appropriate city department.
